1. What is this feature?
How do you think this feature was created?

2. Wave Cut Platforms LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Explain how processes of erosion create
Wave Cut Platforms
(How does erosion form Wave Cut Platforms?)

4. LINES OF WEAKNESS
JOINT
BEDDING PLANE

5. Waves erode (esp. h action and abrasion) the base of the cliff
and carve a wave-cut notch between
the high and low tide lines.
2. The notch gets
deeper leaving an overhang above, until one day the rock above
it collapses due to gravity
Wave-cut
notch
Tidal range
This process happens
repeatedly. The cliff
slowly retreats to
form a wave-cut
platform which is
exposed at low tide.
Wave-cut platform

7. Wave-cut platform
The waves attack the base of the cliff through the processes of abrasion, corrosion, hydraulic action and attrition.
Over time the cliff will be undercut and a wave-cut notch is formed.
Eventually the cliff becomes unstable and collapses. Further cliff retreat will form a wave-cut platform.